Amanda Leftridge, LCSW

Amanda Leftridge, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who offers supportive, practical therapy for people facing health-related challenges and life transitions. With three years of clinical experience and two years spent in a cancer center providing case management and mental health services for oncology patients and their families, she brings focused experience supporting people through serious illness, hospice concerns, and end-of-life issues. She works regularly with clients coping with depression, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief and loss, trauma, anger, chronic stress and fatigue, career-related worries, sleep difficulties, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and issues related to intimacy and sexual health.

Amanda serves clients across the lifespan and has worked with patients on dialysis and families dealing with end-stage renal disease. She is LGBTQIA+ friendly and emphasizes respect, dignity, sensitivity, and compassion in every session, avoiding stigmatizing labels and creating a respectful space for exploration and healing. Her practice also includes work with caregivers, first responders, people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer patients and their loved ones, and those facing aging or geriatric concerns.

Her approach combines mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral, solution-focused, strengths-based, humanistic, and psychodynamic counseling and is tailored to each person’s needs. LCSW indicates a license to provide clinical social work and therapeutic services. Amanda adapts treatment goals and techniques to individual situations and is committed to helping clients build resilience and practical coping skills. She looks forward to working with new clients.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Amanda often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based strategies to help clients manage symptoms and change unhelpful patterns. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting thoughts and behaviors that contribute to anxiety, depression, and stress, and is useful for practical symptom relief and problem solving. Mindfulness therapy teaches present-moment awareness and stress-reduction practices that can reduce rumination, support emotional regulation, and improve coping with chronic illness or grief.

She also uses motivational interviewing when clients need help clarifying goals and finding internal motivation for change; this approach is collaborative and emphasizes the client’s own strengths and values. Determining the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process - Amanda works together with each person to select methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy offers flexible access to care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules or to connect when travel or health concerns make in-person visits difficult. Licensed professionals, including therapists like Amanda, can provide effective support and continuity of care through these remote options, helping clients maintain progress from wherever they are.